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Butterwick, Shauna; Selman, Jan – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2020
This article helps us see how, through revisiting a range of stories, community-based participatory theater can create conditions for acknowledging and valuing difference and promoting solidarity.
Descriptors: Story Telling, Community Programs, Theater Arts, Diversity
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Lawrence, Randee Lipson – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2012
This volume has explored embodied knowing in formal and informal education, including the university classroom, the workplace, the health professions, and the community. Educators considered the role of intuition, theater, dance, yoga, and outdoor education activities as forms of embodied learning. While the contexts of education were different,…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Health Occupations, Informal Education, Cultural Awareness
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Donoho, Bette Halperin – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2005
Community Performance Theater is a vehicle for creating collective knowledge based on oral history, opening dialogue in an urban setting, and paving the way for social change.
Descriptors: Theaters, Social Change, Oral History, Experiential Learning
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Picher, Marie-Claire – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2007
This chapter describes the methodology of the Theater of the Oppressed as developed by Augusto Boal along with examples of its application.
Descriptors: Drama, Theaters, Aesthetics, Teacher Role
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Trounstine, Jean – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2007
This chapter looks at the power of theater and literature programs to affect correctional facilities; it delves into how such programs can deepen connections to oneself, to others, to community, and to the larger world.
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Classics (Literature), Theater Arts